Saturday, July 12, 2025

Set List

 I am a genX male.  Hahaha!  Who knew?

I exercise int he morning and listen to my old iPod nano mix a setlist of about 880 songs.  This filters our the Classical.

Here's what it played for me today--ANNOTATED.

  • Natural Blues-- Moby
  • Ah! Leah! —Donnie Iris. (I still deeply love this song. Thank god they invented the internet so I could find it again)
  • Little Maggie—Kentucky Thunder, Ricky Scraggs
  • Sehnsucht—Ramstein
  • Venus—Bananrama. (I also have the Shocking Blue version, which is  a lot better)
  • If I Can’t Change Your Mind—Sugar
  • We Used to Be Friends—Dandy Warhols
  • Strumpet Eye—Guided by Voices
  • Christine—Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • We Don’t Exist—Meat Puppets
  • I Desire—Devo
  • I Love a Man in Uniform—Gang of Four
  • 10:15 Saturday Night—The Cure (Hearing this today really resonated.  WHAT A BRILLIANT SONG!)
  • Turn a Square—The Shins
  • Bestafe Mich—Rammstein. (skipped this one.  One Rammstein a morning is enough)
  • Chasing Heather Crazy—Guided by Voices. (I remember this as the song that was playing on 9/11 when I heard the World Trade Center towers went down.)
  • Search and Destroy—Iggy and the Stooges
  • One Way of Another—Blondie
  • The Hives Introduce the Metric System in Time—The Hives
  • Mirror in the Bathroom—The English Beat
  • Down In It—Nine Inch Nails. (skipped this one, too)
  • Time to Fall—Radio Birdman
  • Needles for Teeth—The Jesus Lizard

So, I put the unannotated list  into Chatgpt and asked it to deduce the demographics of the person.  Of course it had A LOT to say...!  But this was the gist of it:

Probably a Gen X male, born in the late ’60s or early ’70s, based in the U.S., with deep knowledge of alternative, post-punk, and industrial music.
Possibly artistic, musically literate, or college-educated, with eclectic tastes that span from bluegrass to goth to indie rock. 

 

I know lots of people have big qualms with AI, I understand........ but I also asked it to make a picture of the new genX male me:


 

 

2 comments:

Michael J. McGettigan said...

I yam officially alarmed about this development, and am placing that piece of masking tape back over the camera on my iMac.

Don Burt said...

The first thing that occurred to me when evaluating the GenX Male Judith was that I need to see his socks.